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<article data-history-node-id="433238" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-detain-three-foreign-activists-village-near-ramallah" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-detain-three-foreign-activists-village-near-ramallah" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces detain three foreign activists in village near Ramallah</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli forces on Tuesday detained three foreign activists in the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, Wafa news agency reported.</p> <p>Local sources said troops raided agricultural land owned by a Palestinian family in the al-Khalayel area, south of al-Mughayyir, and detained activists of British, American and Italian nationalities.</p> <p>The activists had been at the Abu Naeem family farm to support residents who face daily attacks and provocations by Israeli colonists, the report said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Claire's beloved horse Tango died in terror when holiday-makers set off a firework display at a nearby cottage. Sign her petition to protect animals and vulnerable people from the shock and terror of ...

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<article data-history-node-id="432740" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/wes-streeting-slammed-linking-intifada-chant-terrorist-action" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/wes-streeting-slammed-linking-intifada-chant-terrorist-action" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Wes Streeting slammed for linking intifada chant to 'terrorist action'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"> <p><meta charset="UTF-8"></p> <p>Pro-<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestine</a>&nbsp;campaigners have criticised&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank">British</a>&nbsp;Health Secretary Wes Streeting for claiming that the protest chant "globalise the intifada" is linked to terrorism.</p> <p>Streeting made the remarks in an&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/BBCNewsnight/status/2000701917861736761?s=20" target="_blank">interview</a>&nbsp;with the BBC on Monday, the day after&nbsp;the antisemitic massacre that killed at least 15 people and wounded 40 on Bondi Beach in Australia.</p> <p>Streeting said: "There will be a whole bunch of daft people in this country who've used those words online or used them in the streets, and watching the TV right now will be shouting, 'of course it doesn't mean terrorism against Jewish people'.</p> <p>"I have to say to those people clearly and robustly, what on earth do you think globalise the intifada means?" he said.</p> <p>"And can't people see the link between that kind of rhetoric and attacks on Jewish people as Jewish people?</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/wes-streeting-slammed-linking-intifada-chant-terrorist-action">Wes Streeting slammed for linking intifada chant to 'terrorist action'</a></h3> </div> </div> </article>

Using an emergency measure that won’t expire until 2030, the Alberta legislature gutted avenues of legal opposition to its anti-trans laws.

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<article data-history-node-id="432729" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/middle-east-eye-bondi-beach-attack-how-western-allies-are-enabling" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/middle-east-eye-bondi-beach-attack-how-western-allies-are-enabling" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Bondi Beach attack: How western allies are enabling Netanyahu's grotesque logic</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew precisely the wrong conclusion from Sunday’s terror attack at Bondi Beach - and western leaders and media are once again buying into his warped logic.</p> <p>Predictably, Netanyahu aimed to exploit the attack - in which&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckgk391yzm7t" target="_blank">more than a dozen people</a>&nbsp;were killed by two gunmen at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney - to implicitly justify&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>’s slaughter and maiming of tens of thousands of children&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza" target="_blank">in Gaza</a>&nbsp;over the past two years.&nbsp;</p> <p>Netanyahu said he had written to the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, a few months earlier to blame him not only for supposedly failing to tackle antisemitism in his country, but for fuelling it by recognising&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;statehood.&nbsp;</p> <p>Quoting from the letter,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/israels-netanyahu-accuses-australian-pm-fuelling-antisemitism-2025-12-14/" target="_blank">he said</a>: “Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.”&nbsp;</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a data-qa="message_attachment_title_link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bondi-beach-attack-how-western-allies-are-enabling-netanyahus-grotesque-logic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bondi Beach attack: How western allies are enabling Netanyahu's grotesque logic</a></h3> <p><img alt="Tributes are left in memory of the victims of the Bondi Beach attack, in Sydney on 15 December 2025 (Saeed Khan/AFP)" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/australia-bondi-beach-attack-december-2025-saeed-khan-afp.jpg.jpg?itok=7kjxpTQU"></p> </div> </div> </article>

Social media users dismiss Israeli prime minister’s attempt to link Palestine's recognition with Jewish safety as 'absurd' and exploitative